With the holidays practically here already, let’s get into my list for the best artsy holiday crafts of 2025.
This is officially the 2025 Date Night Christmas Crafts List—full of soft, silly, easy projects perfect for making memories. Try them solo, with your people, or with someone you’re trying to impress with your fantastic artsy crafting skills. I decided to come up with 25 crafts, so if you are really a competitive crafter, you could do one of these date night Christmas crafts every day til December 25th!
To start, I want to include a little disclaimer. Life is too short not to be silly and have fun. I wanna do stupid things and love big and create for the sake of creating, not because it’s meant to be something. Lately, I’ve been very busy and I’ve been putting off creating art. I’ve even missed October‘s newsletter. Here’s a shameless plug to subscribe to my monthly newsletter:
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At the end of the day, I find myself consuming more than I create. And I think that may be my life lesson.
When you create, you feel a deeper pull into the project. It’s a sense of accomplishment because you know that what you’ve done is truly and irrevocably yours. It could be a beautiful turkey Thanksgiving dinner or a cozy Christmas coloring book page or beautiful photograph taken on your phone. Your creation is the combination of intention, task, and talent.
Now that all that sappy stuff is over, let’s go through my 2025 Date Night Christmas Crafts list!
Twenty Five Date Night Christmas Crafts for 2025:
1. Felt Gingerbread Ornaments – They’re adorable, easy, and don’t require me to preheat anything. You can try out this holiday themed felting kit or try your hand at making it from scratch with brown felt sheets, brown and white embroidery floss, needles, and maybe some white puff paint to bring your gingerbread man to life.
2. Gold-Leaf Anything – Apply fake gold leaf to literally anything. You can get a good bottle of gold leaf paint for under $10.
3. New Year Vision Board – Collage photos and stickers to manifest the life you want in the new year. You can choose to make separate ones, or one combined relationship mood board.
4. Sustainable Velvet Ribbon Garland – Tie velvet ribbon together for a cozy, zero-waste garland. Check out this velvet ribbon set that’s perfect for your Christmas aesthetic! Also, make sure you glue them together with hot glue or glue dots.
5. Googly-Eyed Santa Claus – Go to a relative’s home and put googly eyes on as many Santa and Snowmen figurines as you can find. Get googly eyes with sticky backs like these: 500 Self Adhesive Googly Eyes!
6. Custom Printed Wrapping Paper – This girl on TikTok printed wrapping paper with her cat’s face on it for Christmas this year. I think this date night Christmas craft is adorable and fully customizable.
7. “Slay Bells” Christmas Banner – String cute felt flags that spell out “SLAY BELLS.” You could choose whatever you want it to spell out, but be silly with it! I recommend felt paper for the flags and letters, jute or ribbon to string it, and maybe some embroidery floss to add a cute sewed edge.
8. DIY Champagne Cork Reindeer – Add eyes, pipe cleaners, tiny scarf. Boom. Boozy Rudolph.
9. Salt Dough Lucky Charms – Make mini charms out of salt dough for New Year’s good luck, like stars or clovers. If you want to support a small business, you can also buy these charms from Lovely Crafting Mama’s Etsy shop. For crafting, I recommend everyone interested in making charms, earrings, or keychains get a full jewelry making kit. Trust me, it will make your life easier to buy it once.
10. Snowy Pinecone Place Cards – Frosty pinecones with name tags so no one fights over chairs this year. You can use spray snow to give that frosted effect.
11. Clay Peppermint Coasters – Swirl red and white polymer clay into peppermint circles and bake them. You can also get this 5 lb tub of airdry clay and paint the red swirl on with some gold leaf accent. Just make sure you seal your coasters with a nice varnish. To make this craft easier, you can also use acrylic paint pens to draw on the clay.
12. Build a Gingerbread House – Work together and try not to fight when someone eats the décor. You can also get this cute gingerbread village so everyone gets to decorate their own house.
13. Hand Sewed Holiday Scrunchies – Sew scrunchies with prints like gingerbread, reindeer, or cute elves. For a less in-your-face Christmas theme, opt for red and green gingham fabric, sparkles, or snowflake prints! Check out this tutorial for a no-sew scrunchie: LittleRedWindow.com/how-to-make-scrunchies-with-no-sewing/
14. Airdry Clay Magnets – From Nutcrackers to holly branches to snowmen, you could make a whole army of holiday themed magnets. I especially love these painted floral magnets made of airdry clay! I suggest you get this 5 lb tub of airdry clay, this sheet of magnet paper, and for a special holiday sparkle, go for this gold leaf paint.
15. Magnetic Advent Calendar Tiles – You can make it RedBull themed if you want. You can also use small envelopes, boxes, or fabric pouches filled with treats or sweet notes. I especially like this wooden advent calendar that you can fill with whatever you want!
16. DIY Velvet or Satin Ribbon Statement Bows – Easy and sustainable, this date night Christmas craft is definitely on my to-do list this year. Also, make sure you glue them together with hot glue or glue dots.
17. Love Letter Ornaments – Write tiny notes to each other and tuck them inside clear ornaments. You can use this 12 piece set of clear ornaments, or buy a couple from your local craft store.
18. Stamped Gift Bags & Wrapping Paper – One of my favorite sustainable stamp hacks is to carve a potato and use it as a custom stamp! This creator used a potato stamp to make checkered wrapping paper.
19. Memory Jar with Date Prompts – Decorate a mason jar with ribbons and jute string and fill it with written date ideas for the next year. This jute string set has some really cute options.
20. Pressed Orange Slice Chimes – Boho and festive, this craft uses dried orange slices and other random items you can find, like bells, feathers, cinnamon sticks and evergreen branches, to create a beautiful and sustainable holiday decoration. Also, if you dry out your oranges long enough, you can keep your chime for next year! For more ideas for what to do with your dried oranges, check out this article about Elegant & Cozy Dried Orange Christmas Decorations.
21. Holiday Friendship Bracelets – Channel your inner Christmas Swiftie with cute holiday bracelets! You could even use red and green beads to spell out “SLEIGH” or “HO HO HOMIES.”
22. Recycled Paper Bag Origami Stars – Fold and cut Trader Joe’s paper grocery bags to create really cute hanging stars for the holidays. Here’s a quick TikTok to follow along: www.tiktok.com/@its.kimberlyrodriguez/video
23. Jingle Bell Keychains – Clip jingle bells to a keyring so everyone hears you arriving… or escaping. I recommend everyone interested in making charms, earrings, or keychains get a full jewelry making kit. Trust me, it will make your life easier to buy it once.
24. Spotify Wrapped Bullet Journal Page – With Spotify Wrapped about to drop, it’s basically begging to be turned into date night Christmas crafts. Design a Spotify Wrapped spread in your bullet journal to remember and look back on the wildly musical year you had. Bonus points if you listed to the Wicked soundtrack more than once!
25. Holiday Simmer Pot – Slice oranges, and add cinnamon sticks and cloves to boiling water. I adore simmer pots this time of year, they smell fantastic, are more affordable than a candle and last longer. Check out this recipe for a Winter Solstice simmer pot.
Date Night Christmas Crafts
And that’s the lineup. Cute, easy, zero-pressure date night Christmas crafts that don’t require a personality change or an art degree. Use these date night Christmas crafts to make memories, make a mess, or just make it look like you tried this year. Whatever you choose, happy crafting and happy cuddling.
If this list of Date Night Christmas Crafts isn’t enough for you crafty artists, check out this other list I put together last year of 55 DIY Crafts to Do in December.
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